Taylor Berman

A 22-year-old man suffered an erection for seven weeks after a mountain bike crash. The hard-on finally
subsided after two weeks of medical treatment in a hospital.

"It
was an anxious time for the patient, as it would be for any young
man," Dr. Ronan Browne, a doctor at Dublin's Tallaght Hospital, where the man was
treated, told the Irish Examiner.

The
man received the injury—described as "high-flow" priapism
"with rigid erection"—after crashing into his handle bars.
For reasons that aren't clear, he waited five weeks before seeking
treatment at Dublin's Tallaght Hospital, where it took doctors two weeks to find a cure.

Medics
eventually treated the man after inserting gel foam and four tiny
platinum coils at an abnormal connection between an artery and a vein
that supplied blood to the man's penis. This reduced the high-flow
blood supply to the penis, ending the erection.

"We
were very happy with the outcome," Browne said, adding that he
expects the man to make a full recovery from his "unusual" injury.